![]() She entered the State Institute for Cinema Arts in 1924 to study screenwriting. When Rand and her family returned from the Crimea, she entered the University of Petrograd to study philosophy and history, graduating in 1924. Her love for the West - especially America - was fueled by the Viennese operettas and American and German films, which the Soviets temporarily allowed to be shown. ![]() When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, Rand immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father's pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where Rand finished high school. In February of 1917, Ayn Rand witnessed the first shots of the Russian Revolution, and later that year she witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution as well. Hugo's writing helped arm her against the fatalistic view of life that dominated Russia, a country she later described as "an accidental cesspool of civilization." At the age of 9, Rand decided to become a writer, inspired especially by Victor Hugo's novels. ![]() Having taught herself to read, Rand, at the age of 8, became captivated by the heroism in a French-language serial adventure titled The Mysterious Valley. Rand was raised in an upper-middle-class, European-oriented family, in the midst of the mysticism and nationalism of Russia. Ayn Rand was born Alissa Rosenbaum in 1905 in St. ![]()
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